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Technology here and now January 23, 2013

Jost Zetzsche interviews Prof. Alan K. Melby

By: Dr. Jost Zetzsche& Prof. Alan K. Melby Jost: Alan, thanks for taking the time to answer some questions. In preparation for this conversation, I looked over your CV and list of publications as well as some things that others have said about you. And: wow! You are a true pioneer for many of the [...]

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Technology here and now October 15, 2012

TransiBar – a roundtrip translation portal

  By: Frank ter Reehorst/Scriptware Background TransiBar was first announced mid 2008 by Scriptware Translations as a ‘closed’ portal that required a Login and Password before entering. Basically it functioned as a webtool that allowed customers to get a quote after uploading their files and clicking the [I agree] button to get started. TransiBar consisted [...]

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Issue 4 January 23, 2013

Issue 4 – Business Model Innovation

Issue 4 (January, 2013) focuses on “Business Model Innovation in the GILT Industry.” A business model defines the key elements of [...]

Home April 10, 2012

Welcome

Welcome to “The Big Wave”, a quarterly multilingual journal specialising in language technology. “The Big Wave” consists of five sections: Technology [...]

Quirks June 19, 2013

Developing Requirements and Compensation Schemes for PEMT Jobs

PEMT PEMT expands in post-editing of machine translation, and usually refers to the process of checking machine translation output for [...]

Technology here and now June 12, 2013

TBW interviews Nataly Kelly, VP of Market Development at Smartling, Inc.

  In a recent post you wondered whether a new term for machine translation is necessary and advocated the term “Computer-Generated Translation” [...]

Quirks April 28, 2013

Trembling and Stumbling in the Rumble Seat

Peras imposuit Iuppiter nobis duas: propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit, alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem. If documentation is the [...]

What Clients Want April 28, 2013

Creative Pricing

 “A less mature customer is a gift” Anne-Marie Colliander Lind on creative pricing, interviewed by Konstantin Dranch just before her [...]

Technology here and now April 21, 2013

Interview with Aidan Collins, User Engagement Manager at KantanMT

Could you please start by telling us what KantanMT is? KantanMT is a cloud-based MT platform. It helps our clients [...]

Quirks March 15, 2013

A Long Road Ahead

Quality is the life vest of the translation industry: all players rely on the magical mystery word that instantly explain [...]